Two-piece rubber whistle for toys



Aug- 15, 1950 T. w. SMITH, JR 2,519,324

TWO-PIECE RUBBER WHISTLE FOR TOYS Filed Sept. 25, 1947 INVENTOR. moms Man/m, UK

Patented Aug. 15, 1950 e UNITED STATES PATENT :o-FricE Thomas W. Smith, Jr., Akron, Ohio, assignor to The Sun Rubber Company, Barberton, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application September 25, 1947, Serial No. 776,031

zrclaims. (01. 46179) 1 The present invention re a es to whistles made in Fig. 1, each orifice 8 is formed with two conof while!- n1 r bber like composition intended for verging conical surfaces H and 12, which meet -use "in the manufacture of hollow rubber dolls, cwtrally of the orifice in a sharp, thin, or feather or toys for the amusement of infants or small e dge M. In Fig. 2 the orifice i5 is formed by a children. It has been customary to manufact 5 s ngle conical surface It which terminates in a toys of this type with metal whistles whi are sharp, thin, or feather edge ll, coincident With embedded within the wall of the a e, but one of the surfaces of the side wall.

metal Whistles or other noisemalzcrs have been It will be seen that in both cases t Cir-011mobjectionable because of the danger of the emference of the orifice is formed by a Sharp thin bedded noisemaker becoming dislodged. line of rubber. In this respect the whistles of T0 obviate h s da it has been p pos d t the present invention diner radically from rubmake the whistle of rubber so that even if it is her whistles formerly used, which were formed dislodged from the body of the toy the child ca with orifices having cylindrical walls and consenot be injured by Sharp metal- However. quently thick lips or rims were formed about the her whistles such as made in the past do not passage t the inner chamber. produce a desirable tone. The note given off by There is very little difference between the the rubber whistles heretofore used has a deadsound produced by aspirating either type of fi to e d 1 0 t e shrill q y the high whistle shown. herein. Each produces a loud Ditch which is pmduced y the O y metal shrill tone such as is characteristic of the metal whistle. whistle and this seems to be due to the provision The rubber whistle has many advantages from of the thin or feather edge about the circuma safety standpoint, but its use was restricted beference of the orifice, cause of these unsa i f ct y Sound p p To make the whistle sections, a two part mold It s the p p of the present invention to is provided of the proper contour and to form change the design of a rubber whistle so as to either orifice a pin or pins of th shape of the correct and improve upon its sound giving orifice are set in the mold halves. The mold properties with the result that it gives out a loud Sheum be arefull loaded so t t t rubber shrill noise equal in every respect to the noise fills out the space about the pin properly to secure created by aspirating the ordinary metal whistle. the thin f th r edge, t is pessime t mold th In the drawing, there are s t types or whistle section with a straight orifice and subembodiments of the invention elther one of sequently to ream out the orifice so as to create which will produce the loud, shrill tone which is an rifi e of the proper eohtour, but t desirable in noisema n y quires a further manipulation which increases In the drawing in which the preferred forms the cost f manufacture of improved whistles areshflw It is not necessary that the surfaces forming 1 1s a cross Sectwn through a rubber the wall of the orifice be counter-sunk on exact Wh1fle Y cones, for they may be formed on a radius if 2 1s a slmflar of a rubber whlstle of desired, so long as the extreme inner edge is sharp the i and thin to give the desired tone quality. 3 1S plan of the whlsfle shown m 40 Other modifications may be adopted and other g. 2. forms of counter-sinking may be employed which I iggi g? ,x tfig ggig t g s g fi will not alter the essential features of the presf ulcanized rubber laced in 0 051138 relation ent invention, it being intended that the inven- V p pp tion shall not be limited to the identical forms Each section of the whistle is hollowed out on t its inner face so that when the sections are thereof shown in the drawings and described joined, a hollow chamber 3 is provided in the hereininterior of the whistle. Each section is molded What is claimed is:

with a fiat rim 4 about its periphery and these A Whistle composed of two rubber di surfaces are cemented as indicated at 5 so that each of said disks being hollowed out on one surwhen the surfaces are pressed into contact the face and having Out p ripheral rim portions,

sections adhere. Each section of the whistle is the disks being placed with the rims in contact formed with a raised central portion 6 through and the hollowed out portions in opposition formwhich the orifice 8 (Fig. l) eXtends to the inner ing a central chamber of substantially oval cross hamber, the orifices being opposed. As shown section, and an aperture in each disk leading to 3 the chamber, the wall of at least one of said disks being reduced in cross section as it approaches the aperture therein to form a relatively thin edge portion surrounding the aperture therein.

2. A whistle composed of two rubber disks, said disks having outer peripheral rim portions placed in contact with one another, the area of each disk within the rim being concave and placed in opposition to the similar concave area of the other disk to form a central chamber of substantially oval cross section, oppositely positioned apertures in the central portion of the disks, the wall thickness of at least one of said disks being reduced as it approaches the aper- 15 THOMAS W. SMITH, JR. REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

10 Number UNITED STATES PA'I'ENTS Name Date Pfeifl'er Dec. 24, 1872 Girard May 17, 1921 Maywald Feb. 8, 1927 Hees Apr. 10, 1934 Ladd Oct. 25, 1949 

